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{{Short description|British scholar and translator (1927–1972)}}
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'''Robert André Edouard Baldick''', [[Royal Society of Literature|FRSL]] (9 November 1927 – April 24, 1972),<ref name=KO>{{citation|last=O'Driscoll|first=Kieran|title=Retranslation Through the Centuries: Jules Verne in English|location=Oxford|publisher=Peter Lang|year=2011|pages=151–152}}</ref> was a British scholar of [[French literature]], writer, [[translator]] and joint editor of the [[Penguin Books#Penguin Classics|Penguin Classics]] series with [[Betty Radice]]. He was a Fellow of [[Pembroke College, Oxford]].

He wrote eight books, including biographies of [[Joris-Karl Huysmans]], [[Frédérick Lemaître]], and [[Henry Murger]], and a history of the [[Siege of Paris (1870–1871)|Siege of Paris]]. In addition, he edited and translated ''[[Goncourt Journal|Pages from the Goncourt Journals]]'' and other classics of French literature, including [[Gustave Flaubert]]'s ''[[Sentimental Education]]'', [[Jules Verne]]'s ''[[Journey to the Centre of the Earth]]'', and [[Jean-Paul Sartre]]'s ''[[Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'', as well as works by [[Chateaubriand]] and [[Henri Barbusse]] and a number of novels by [[Georges Simenon]]. In ''[[The New Criterion]]'', [[Eric Ormsby]] writes that Baldick's ''The Life of J.-K. Husymans'' is "able to hold its own with [[George D. Painter|Painter]]'s [[Marcel Proust|Proust]] or [[Richard Ellman|Ellman]]'s [[James Joyce|Joyce]]".<ref>Ormsby, Eric. [https://newcriterion.com/article/delousing-the-soul/ "Delousing the Soul"]. ''The New Criterion'', September 2006.</ref>

Baldick died unexpectedly of a cerebral tumor at age 44.<ref>[https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003049586-4/penguin-russian-classics-1964-cathy-mcateer Taylor & Francis Group]</ref> His sons are Julian Baldick, an author specialising in Sufism, and the English academic [[Chris Baldick]].

== Selected bibliography ==
* ''The Life of J.-K. Huysmans''. (Oxford University Press, 1955; new edition, revised by Brendan King, Dedalus Books 2006)
* ''Dinner at Magny's'' (Victor Gollancz, 1971)<ref>Biographical detail taken from a copy ''Dinner at Magny's'', published by Gollancz in 1971</ref>
* ''The Life and Times of Frédérick Lemaître: Actor, Lover and Idol of Paris'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1959)
* ''[[À rebours|Against Nature]]'' (Penguin Classics) by Joris-Karl Huysmans (translator; Penguin, 1959)
* ''The Goncourts'' (Bowes and Bowes, 1960)
* ''The First Bohemian: The Life of Henry Murger'' (Hamish Hamilton, 1961)
* ''The Memoirs of Chateaubriand '' (editor & translator; Hamish Hamilton, 1961)
* ''Three Tales'' (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (translator; Penguin, 1961)
* ''Pages from the Goncourt Journals'' (editor & translator; Oxford University Press, 1962; The Folio Society, 1980; [[New York Review Books]], 2006)
* ''Centuries of Childhood'' by [[Philippe Aries]] (translator; Jonathan Cape, 1962)
* ''Cruel Tales'' (Oxford Library of French Classics) by [[Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam]] (translator; Oxford University Press, 1963)
* ''The Battle of [[Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Dienbienphu]]'' by [[Jules Roy]] (translator; Harper & Row, 1965)
* ''The Siege of Paris'' (Batsford, 1964)
* ''Sentimental Education'' (Penguin Classics) by Gustave Flaubert (translator; Penguin, 1964)
* ''The Duel: A History of [[Duelling]]'' (Chapman and Hall, 1965)
* ''[[Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'' (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre (translator; Penguin, 1965)
* ''[[Hell (Barbusse novel)|Hell]]'' by Henri Barbusse (translator; Chapman & Hall, 1966)
* ''The Trial of [[Marshal Pétain]]'' by Jules Roy (translator; Faber, 1968)
* ''[[Around the Moon]]'' by [[Jules Verne]] (translator; J. M. Dent & Sons, 1970)
* ''Dreamers of Decadence: Symbolist Painters of the 1890s'' by [[Philippe Jullian]] (translator; Pall Mall Press, 1971)
* ''[[Aphrodite: mœurs antiques|Aphrodite]]'' by [[Pierre Louÿs]] (translator; Panther, 1972)<ref>London: Panther. {{ISBN|0-586-03517-6}}.</ref>

==See also==
*Translated Penguin Book - at [http://www.penguinfirsteditions.com/index.php?cat=TranslatorsA-G Penguin First Editions] reference site of early first edition Penguin Books.

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